THE UNEMPLOYED QUESTION
GENERAL BOOTH RECEIVES A. NOBLE OFFER. ! SCHEME FOR HOME COLONI. SATION. Received 20, 9.21 p.m. London, Deeomber General Booth, in a lettor to Kinff Edward, announces that Mr GoorgeHerrmg has given the Salvationists tho sum of £IOO,OOO, to bo. ultimately re* payable at the rate of £4OOO a year, for the benefit of tho Hospital Fund,, and for purposes of Home colonisatiom and settling some of the unemployed as peasant proprietors—oach to receive five acres of suitable lartd, a cottage, stock, seed, implements, and temporary provisions for tlie family,'
Tlio settlors are to repay the outlay and interest by instalments spread over . a term of years until- tliey acquire ownership. Any profit arising from (lie scheme is. 4o- form illc nucleus Qf it, permanent extension of the effort.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8009, 21 December 1905, Page 2
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131THE UNEMPLOYED QUESTION Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8009, 21 December 1905, Page 2
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